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libass, a library that draws subtitles in video players, can read and write past the end of a glyph array when it renders crafted ASS subtitle files. The sources say no exploitation beyond possible denial of service is known, and broader abuse is theoretical.
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First seen by InfraStack 2026-10-30 15:31 UTC. All times on this page are UTC.
Applications that link libass and render ASS/SSA subtitles from files or streams they do not fully control, such as media players and video tools. Systems that never render ASS subtitles from untrusted input can skip it. The sources do not describe further conditions.
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pkg-config --modversion libass0.17.5Each row is the first time that source carried this signal. The analyst’s rows are its own findings.
libass is a portable subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA (Advanced Substation Alpha/Substation Alpha) subtitle format. Prior to 0.17.5, libass can overread and overwrite the glyph array in wrap_lines_measure while rendering malicious ASS content. In wrap modes other than two, a final line ending with a literal backslash-n sequence and otherwise consisting only of such sequences or spaces can remain after early trimming and make the line-measurement loops overshoot by one glyph. When the total text size exactly matches the allocated glyph-array capacity, the first loop reads an uninitialized 32-bit fixed-point pos.x value, although that value is not subsequently used. The second loop writes pos.x and pos.y beyond the array, zeroing the first and adding an attacker-controllable offset to the second. No actual exploitation beyond possible denial of service is known; broader exploitation is theoretical and constrained by the addresses, limited writes, and ASLR. This issue is fixed in version 0.17.5.
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